This thesis surveys the Akan collections in the Natal Museum, Pietennaritzburg.
Chapter one of this thesis gives a historical overview of Akan cultural traditions. The second chapter introduces the main focus of the thesis ...

Could the contribution of the voluntary sector to development be more fully realized given greater current emphasis on participatory development? This research addresses this question within the context of a voluntary ...

In this thesis I attempt to examine the way that rural women in Natal, from the early 1950s to the
1980s, were relegated to the periphery of both white society and black traditional society. Lauretta
Ngcobo's second novel ...

The broad aim of this study is to show, through a comparative and contrasting analysis
of three thematically related texts - namely Peter Abrahams's Mine Boy; Alan Patan's
Cry, the Beloved Country and Phyllis Altman's ...

The aim of this dissertation was to investigate the representation of specific types of
animals as they occurred in Homer and archaic Attic black figure vase painting with a
view to understanding bow they were most likely ...

The thesis focuses on a variation of James's interest in the "international theme", the effect of transatlantic influences on the development of personality, culture and idea. In the context of this theme it seeks to ...

This thesis posits that the "observers" attendant in Eliot's poems The Love Song of Alfred Prurock, Portrait of a Lady, Preludes and Rhapsody on a Windy Night can be considered quintessential figures of modernity. Against ...

Using a framework of feminism and poststructuralism, this thesis aims to
interrogate the utilisation of the body as a contested site of struggle for
meaning in contemporary theatre dance in South Africa. "Both feminism, ...

This dissertation considers nature imagery in selected South Afiican ceramics and printmaking. The main focus is on ecological issues in recent art productions. The text consists of five chapters. The first examines the ...

This treatise is a study of media-related articles in the South African press February 1996 to April 1999. Through a discourse analysis approach, the treatise identifies two main discourses relating to normative press ...

My contention in this thesis is that gender identity in Ciceronian oratorical
performance is a rhetorical tool that has two aspects: first, it enables Cicero as
an orator to gain access to forensic space, and second, it ...

This thesis examines the emerging intercultural dialogues around disability,
performance dance and children in the multicultural context of KwaZulu-Natal.
It focuses on creative dance (or modem educational dance), as it ...

In this thesis I argue that recently recorded izibongo must be read as literary texts that
articulate responses to the multiple forces of constraint and possibility at the urban-rural
interface. I argue that when scholars ...

Women experience abuse from their partners. Adolescent relationship abuse is the main focus of this study. The research intends to create awareness about the abuse of women, research adolescent attitudes and beliefs, ...